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On this episode of Expedition X,

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in the ancient Aztec canals near Mexico City,

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my team investigates a haunted island

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where thousands of demonic dolls are on the attack.

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There are things on this island that can come after us.

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Jessica, you're gonna want to see this. Look at this.

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I might be able to find a little backup for you.

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World-renowned paranormal investigator Jason Hawes joins the hunt.

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What the heck?

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What?

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To make contact with the other side.

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Holy f***.

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Just behind you, there's a doll. It's moving.

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What?

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Oh my God.

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My name is Josh Gates.

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In my travels, I've experienced strange things that defy logic

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and made me question everything.

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Oh my God.

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Now, I've put together a team to investigate the stranger side of the unknown.

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Let's go.

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Phil Torres is a scientist who hunts for rational explanations.

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The criminal has actually found snow snow.

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Jessica Chobot's paranormal research has made her a true believer.

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There is a monster living in this forest.

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Phil, Phil, Phil.

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I just saw something right across.

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Together, we're searching for answers

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What is that?

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to the world's most extraordinary mysteries.

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This is Expedition X.

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We have a case today that's really intriguing and also terrifying.

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We're talking about the paranormal.

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Ghosts.

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Now, ghosts are a very polarizing subject.

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In a recent poll, about 48% of Americans believe in ghosts.

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So it's almost split down the middle half and half.

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Phil, what's your take on ghosts?

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Are you a believer?

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I'm a skeptic.

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But show me and maybe I'll believe.

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I'm not ever the scientist.

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And what about you?

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Believer and ghosts?

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Yeah, I'm a believer.

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I mean, think about it.

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Everyone you know has a story or they know someone that has a story.

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And I don't think you can just easily write that off.

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So we've got our representation of America here.

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You know, 50% believe, 50% do not.

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Let's see if we can sway your skepticism here, Phil.

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I want to show you a video from the internet.

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This is not the case that you're going to be investigating,

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but it is related in a way.

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So check this video out.

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This is a video that was shot by a woman named Cherie Shown

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from Fresno, California.

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And as you can see, she has a truly creepy collection of dolls.

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Already, I don't understand this woman.

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But wait for it.

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Something really, really creepy is about to happen.

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Watch this.

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Oh!

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Can you see it?

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Okay, one more time.

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Here we go.

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Back it up.

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Oh my God.

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Oh!

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That's not right.

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That's not right.

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That's not right at all.

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So Phil, what do you think?

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Have I made you a true believer now?

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I fully believe that yes, a room full of dolls is creepy.

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Yeah, sure.

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No question.

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We can all agree on that.

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No question, yes.

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But the timing of it, just when they pan to that doll,

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that it moves its arm, it just seems a little too convenient

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for me to really believe that she caught something paranormal on camera.

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So you need a lot more evidence here.

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And what about you, Jess?

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What do you make of the doll?

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I'm totally into this.

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Could be real.

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I absolutely think that this could be real.

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And with Phil, that I think it needs more investigation.

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Look, there's other examples out there.

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We've got Annabelle, the famous doll from Ed and Lorraine Warren.

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Right, famous paranormal investigators who investigated a case with a haunted doll.

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A doll they kept locked in a case that nobody was supposed to disturb,

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in which they've made a bunch of very creepy movies about.

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We tend to think of stories like this as kind of the stuff of modern horror films.

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But in fact, belief in paranormal energy in dolls is old, really old.

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There are instances that date back to ancient Egypt.

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In ancient Egypt, there were small wax figures and effigies made

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that were meant to contain supernatural power.

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In ancient Rome, they used to use dolls and all sorts of rituals to commune with the gods.

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And you find these little effigies and offerings all over the world in ancient cultures

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that are meant to be imbued with a kind of magic.

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But there is one place in the world that has more paranormal dolls

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per square inch than anywhere else on the planet.

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And it is a place known as the Island of the Dolls.

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Have you heard of this place?

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Absolutely. I wanted to go there for so long.

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Well, I've got some bad news for you.

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This is a place that I have had a chance to visit.

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It is in Mexico City.

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It has a really fascinating backstory.

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And depending on your beliefs, it is also a place that is filled with some seriously negative energy.

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Check this out.

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Mexico City was once the domain of the Aztecs.

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And on the outskirts of the city, there is a grouping of tiny islands in a maze of canals called Soche Milco.

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These waterways were used by indigenous people more than 500 years ago

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for agriculture and transportation.

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At the same time, the Aztecs started performing sacred and bloody rituals

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at a nearby pyramid complex called Cerro de la Estrella.

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And some believe there is a spiritual connection between the pyramid and the canals.

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Flash forward to the 1950s and the canals.

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A man named Don Julian Santana Barrera became the caretaker of one of these islands.

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The story goes that one day while Don Julian was fishing from the bank of his island,

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he discovered the body of a drowned girl.

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Just a few feet away, the girl's doll washed ashore.

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Don Julian became fixated on this disturbing event, and he hung the girl's doll from a tree.

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Something he was warding off ancient Aztec spirits.

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Others say the spirit of the drowned girl had possessed him.

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Within a few years, Don Julian had covered the island with strange, broken dolls.

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Then, in a terrifying twist to the story, Don Julian's body was found in 2001

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in the exact spot where he discovered the drowned girl and her doll.

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People have continued to bring dolls to the island,

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attempting to ward off whatever evil spirits lurk there.

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And now, there are thousands.

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Since I visited there, the instances of what people claim are paranormal occurrences

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have skyrocketed. There's some sort of malevolent energy there.

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So, if it's not real, what are people experiencing?

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And what is that rational explanation?

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If it is real, can what's happening there be documented?

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That's the mission.

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Up for it?

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A 2600-mile flight lands Jessica and Phil in Mexico City.

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Today, Mexico City is the second-largest metropolis in the Western Hemisphere.

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It sits atop the ruins of what was once Tenochtitlan,

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the soaring capital of the mighty Aztec Empire that sat atop an island in what was then a vast lake.

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Constructed more than 600 years ago, it eventually fell to Spanish conquistadors in 1521.

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And even today, this mix of cultures can be seen everywhere you look in this historic metropolis.

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We've arranged to meet our first eyewitness in downtown Mexico City.

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She's a woman who's had a terrifying experience at the island of the dolls.

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Well, it was the creepiest thing in my life.

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Because it was a dare. I went to the island by myself.

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Was the dare just to go to the island by yourself?

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That there was for stealing a doll.

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What happened when you first stepped on the island?

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Since I got off the boat, it feels so strange, like a dark vibe.

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I started feeling someone was there.

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Somebody was watching you?

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Yeah. A little shadow, like maybe a girl.

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Oh my God, it was terrifying.

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She said she felt under attack and physically ill as if the spirits were chasing her off the island.

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She left without a doll and says she won't ever go back.

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Tanya's story is consistent with other witnesses who say the phenomena out there seem to be getting more dangerous.

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Ready to do this?

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Yeah, let's go.

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If we're going to get to the bottom of what's happening on the island of the dolls, it's time to get out there.

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We board a traditional trajinaro boat that'll take us through ancient canals to the island of the dolls.

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Our guide Miguel has been taking this boat trip to the island since he was six years old.

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Back when Don Julian still served as the island's caretaker.

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So what did Don Julian actually say about the island?

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After Don Julian found the girl's body, he was haunted by her ghost.

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So Miguel, do you go out there anymore at night?

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No, not anymore.

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The last time I ever set foot on the island, I had gone there with a friend.

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We were tying our boat to the dock and as the sun went down, we noticed a drop in temperature.

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We spotted a warrior-like figure walking toward the shack.

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We hopped onto land and followed the path.

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Once we got there, no one was inside.

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We both had a strong sense of threat in our stomachs.

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It almost felt like sickness.

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Whether you believe these stories or not, there's definitely an eerie stillness out here on the canal.

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Oh my God, look at this place.

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Holy f***.

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This is certifiably horrifying.

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Oh my God.

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Oh, that is extremely messed up.

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It's like smi- Eiling?

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Rojelio.

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Rojelio.

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Jessica and I have arranged to meet with the island's current caretaker, Rojelio Sanchez.

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He's the nephew of the original caretaker, Don Julian, who died on this island in 2001.

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Hola.

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Hola.

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¿Cómo está?

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This place is overwhelmingly intense.

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I'm eager to see the mysterious doll that belonged to the drowned girl.

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It's the first doll that Don Julian hung and some believe that act unleashed the dark forces here.

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This is the original doll.

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She doesn't have any feet.

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She doesn't have any arms.

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She's been here over 60 years.

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She's the one that he found next to her body in the water.

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Yes.

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So this is where we begin.

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As Rojelio talks about the dolls, I sense a presence and start to feel uneasy.

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This is followed by a sudden chill.

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Perhaps the sign that spirits could be displacing the heat around me.

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Ugh, look it.

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Got the goosebumps.

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Oh my God, I'm gonna start crying.

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Ugh.

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You doing okay?

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No, no I'm not.

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I'm getting out.

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I'll just take a breather.

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I'll come back in.

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I just need a second.

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You can stop right here.

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Ugh.

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I've seen this before.

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I believe that the spirit of the child and the spirits of those who once lived here is contained in the dolls.

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Feeding off of your energy.

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That is what you're feeling.

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It seems like Jessica might not have been the only victim of whatever phenomenon was happening in the shack.

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So what happened with the cameras?

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Tony, I'm playing now.

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But what did you see on it before?

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It showed the clip from when we were inside, like just coming onto the island.

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Why? What's happening?

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Should we cut the...

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What point when you walked inside did that happen?

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They had just... all three of them had gotten together on the inside, standing in that corner.

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So right before Jessica had her outburst?

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Yeah, they had just stopped recording.

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And now we can't even look at any of the footage. It's just not there anymore.

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Man, what is going on here?

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I've sent Phil and Jessica to the notorious Island of the Dolls.

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A place that I found deeply disturbing when I investigated it a decade ago.

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But these days, paranormal activity here is reportedly even stronger.

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Something that Jessica may have just experienced firsthand.

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You doing okay?

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No, no, I'm not. I'm getting out.

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Take a breather. I'll come back in. I just need a second.

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You can stop right here.

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Meanwhile, the crew realizes that Jessica may not have been the only target of the energy in the room.

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One of the cameras suffered a serious malfunction.

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Should we cut the...

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A camera just completely seized.

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Really?

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And stopped recording.

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Brad, my producing partner for nearly 15 years, has seen plenty of production glitches.

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But for an utterly reliable camera like this to fail, he thinks could mean something else.

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We've seen this sort of equipment failure and battery drain and things not working right when there's paranormal activity around.

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It's a phenomenon for TV crews who do this sort of thing. It happens.

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Yeah, it felt like I got hit with a ton of bricks.

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We saw all the clips from beginning and then as soon as you walked in, we had one frame.

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Right when we walked in there.

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Yeah.

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We put the hard drive back in and it's just sitting there busy. It won't play.

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I was not comfortable in there at all.

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But the incident is also an encouraging sign that there's something going on here.

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And because so many reports of the island's paranormal activity have happened after dark,

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we're eager to return to the island soon to conduct a thorough overnight investigation.

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Rogelio, we'd like to come back at night. We're going to bring some gear.

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We're going to do our own investigations, maybe even take some samples.

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So we want to see if that'd be okay with you.

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But Rogelio has serious reservations.

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I used to live here on the island, but I no longer stay here at night because the spirits are too intense.

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You've been here five minutes and you've already been attacked by the spirits.

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I need to think about it. I don't want to see you get hurt. Please, let's step outside.

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I understand why Rogelio might be concerned so soon after seeing me react to the island spirits,

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but I'm hoping that we can find some way to convince him to allow us back.

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Before we go, we'd like to see the place where your uncle first saw the girl.

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Yes, please.

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In this place, the girl died here in this spot. She drowned here in the canal.

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Why did your uncle feel that hanging up her doll would put her at peace?

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He believed that the girl's spirit was going to drag him into the water

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and he thought that hanging up the doll might appease the spirit.

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But your uncle did die in this spot, didn't he?

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Yes, at the time of his death, he was here at the shore fishing.

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I believe that he saw the spirit of the girl and got so scared that he had a heart attack and died.

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So he was literally scared to death by the spirit?

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Yes, I believe so. I'm not just her. The ancient spirits are also strong here.

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They are a part of the dolls now.

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He said you can feel it because you get goosebumps.

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We tell Rogelio that we understand the risks but we still want to conduct an overnight investigation.

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For now, we take our boat and head back to the mainland.

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Once there, we set up a sky put Josh to figure out a way to convince the caretaker to allow us to return.

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Hey, guys, how are you? Let's talk Island of the Dolls. Did you make it to the island?

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We did. We did.

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For me, it was terrifying. We had a moment where we walked into an area where the original doll is kept.

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And the minute I walked in, I got hit hard with a huge wave of sadness.

295
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Wow. Are you okay?

296
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Yeah, I'm okay. Just, yeah, it wasn't anything that I expected to have happen.

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Now, when I was there, which was like a lifetime ago, access was not a difficult thing, but I take it that's changed.

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Yeah.

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The caretaker said we couldn't come back at night. He was pretty adamant about it.

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Yeah, you have any thoughts on how to change his mind?

301
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Okay, so, hey, guys, I have a very unusual Rolodex. Let me go through it.

302
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I might be able to find a little backup for you. It might take me a couple of days to find the right person.

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That'd be great.

304
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Listen, guys, keep your eyes and ears open. I look forward to hearing all about it later.

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We'll do.

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While I round up some resources to help with the overnight investigation of the island,

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Jessica and Phil decide to investigate a nearby location that many people believe is responsible for the paranormal activity at the island,

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the Cerro de la Estrella Pyramid Complex. Built around the same time as the Socha Milko Canals,

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this was the location of the Aztec Sacred Fire Ritual.

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Every 52 years, the Aztecs conducted human sacrifices here, offering the still-beating hearts of their captives to the gods.

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They believed this was necessary to keep the sun shining on the vast Aztec Empire.

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Starting in the 1970s, the water from the sacred mountain was diverted to feed the canals of Socha Milko,

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and I'm wondering if there's something about that water that could account for the experiences people are reporting out at the island.

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And I'm wondering if the paranormal energy from the pyramid could be flowing there as well.

315
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But it's below the surface of the ruins where it gets really interesting.

316
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It's a dizzying maze of miles and miles of tunnels where rainwater and runoff flows out to the canals and the island of the dolls.

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In these tunnels, the Aztecs performed bloody and brutal sacrifices to their gods.

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Just get our headlamps on.

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Just fight it. Oh, you good?

320
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Yeah, I'm good.

321
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Oh, it is dark in here.

322
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Jessica, you're gonna want to see this. Look at this. Look at this.

323
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Holy s***!

324
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The water from this mountain feeds the Socha Milko canals,

325
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and, like the island of the dolls, has a reputation as a hotspot for otherworldly phenomena.

326
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Jessica, you're gonna want to see this. Look at this. Look at this.

327
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Holy s***!

328
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What is that?

329
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I know this symbol looks ominous, but it's probably been put here to ward off evil spirits.

330
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But, you know, who knows why the person put it here.

331
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It could be to actually lock in the evil here so that it doesn't escape out into the real world.

332
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So, evils may be locked in over there.

333
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Yeah, so you should go further into the cave.

334
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That's the way we're going.

335
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Excellent.

336
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Oh, what's that smell?

337
00:20:47,500 --> 00:20:50,500
Yeah, I'm getting a whiff of something subtly sweet.

338
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Could be a sign of ethylene, or there could even be methane in here.

339
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Uh, is that dangerous?

340
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It can be if you're exposed to high enough levels.

341
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Ethylene is a naturally occurring gas that is sometimes emitted from fissures in limestone,

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and there's a significant amount of limestone beneath Mexico City.

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Breathing ethylene or methane in high levels can cause dizziness, nausea, hallucinations,

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or even loss of consciousness.

345
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Could that explain the strange feelings that people are having on the island of the Dalls?

346
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It really makes you wonder how far through these caves go.

347
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I mean, there is a lot happening underneath this temple, underneath Mexico City,

348
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and it's given me some ideas about what could be happening at the island of the Dalls.

349
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I think I need to do some more digging into it, though.

350
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It's just ghost, Phil. It's a little bit complicated.

351
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With a new day comes a new development.

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We've received word that the caretaker of the island is allowing us to return.

353
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Thanks to the presence of a special guest,

354
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that Josh has arranged to join us, veteran paranormal investigator Jason Haas.

355
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Over the past two decades, Jason and his team have investigated thousands of claims of paranormal activity.

356
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Hey, look who it is! How you doing, man? Welcome!

357
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Should we do it? Yeah, let's go!

358
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Now, what do you guys think about the island, like, your own perception, your own taste?

359
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As a person who had a breakdown in front of Phil and the entire crew,

360
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I was shocked at how quickly I felt, like, sobbingly sad.

361
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Listen, for me, why this particular place?

362
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Like, what flipped the switch for me here at the exact moment that apparently one of our cameras died?

363
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That's weird. Any kind of plans how we should approach this?

364
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Has anybody checked any of the, uh, the, uh, the cameras?

365
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Has anybody checked any of the, uh, levels of gas or anything of that nature?

366
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So, yeah, so I'm gonna be testing for methane, those types of gases,

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because some of them, legit, can make people, you know, feel weird or even hallucinate.

368
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There's a hyper sensitivity, where people feel nausea, fatigue, hallucinations, paranoia.

369
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When you remove that, a lot of times you remove their experiences,

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because that nothing to do with the paranormal in the first place.

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Jason, check this out up ahead.

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Jason, do you want to come with me?

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Because I actually found a spot that's pretty decent for, like, a home base.

374
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Yeah, that's fine. I'll be on the shore over here.

375
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Okay.

376
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While Phil goes to test environmental factors that might explain some of the island's strange phenomena,

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Jason and I agreed to set up a camera grid to monitor the sweeps we will conduct during our investigation.

378
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So I was thinking right here.

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It's Mac Dab in the middle of all the times.

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I figure that way, if anything happens, we can kind of, we've got an equal opportunity to get there as fast as possible.

381
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I can't imagine how much time it took to put all these dolls up.

382
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It's for years. Years and years.

383
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Do you want to go do some recon?

384
00:24:04,500 --> 00:24:05,500
Let's do it. You're the boss.

385
00:24:05,500 --> 00:24:06,500
All right.

386
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I just don't like it in here.

387
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This is the doll that Don Julian found in the water next to the little girl's body.

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While Jessica and Jason scout, I'm setting up where most of the paranormal activity has been reported,

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by the water where both the girl and Don Julian died.

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I start off shore with the tech tool that's never been used before in this location, an underwater ROV camera.

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I'm looking for bubbles in the water that would indicate the presence of a natural gas like ethylene.

392
00:24:43,500 --> 00:24:46,500
Wow, this water is murky.

393
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This is going to be really challenging. I'm seeing tons of gas bubbles.

394
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What was that?

395
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Veteran paranormal investigator Jason Hawes has joined Jessica and Phil on the Island of the Dolls.

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While he and Jessica prepare for tonight's investigation,

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Phil is using an underwater ROV to probe the area where both the little girl and Don Julian drowned.

398
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He's exploring a theory that toxic gases might be making people ill,

399
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giving them symptoms that feel like paranormal phenomena.

400
00:25:33,500 --> 00:25:35,500
Whoa, what was that?

401
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I think I just saw a doll down there.

402
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I try to put the image of this sunken doll out of my mind and get back to the task at hand.

403
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Every time I get to the bottom and kind of put it in place, gas is just flowing everywhere.

404
00:25:49,500 --> 00:25:52,500
So now I just got to figure out what that gas is.

405
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I collect water samples near the area that has the highest concentration of bubbles.

406
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I'm thinking there could be toxic gases in the water, but I won't know for sure until I send these samples to the lab.

407
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Alright.

408
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While Phil collects additional samples,

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back at Base Camp, Jason and I select the gear we'll need for tonight's investigation and discuss our strategy.

410
00:26:17,500 --> 00:26:18,500
Weiss cameras?

411
00:26:18,500 --> 00:26:22,500
Yeah, I thought these would be a good idea to cover the island in areas where we can't be.

412
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Thermal? Everybody needs thermal?

413
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Perfect.

414
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Let's do it.

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Jason and I move about the island, setting up a series of cameras in the key paranormal hotspots.

416
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Well, the nice thing about these cameras though, you're able to get a wide shot.

417
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We were covering from here, where you had your experience, all the way this wall and everything.

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We have a shot of the original doll that was found next to the drowned girl, and one on the outside of the shack.

419
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One where the little girl's body was found and where Don Hulian also died.

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Even in low light, these can pick up all kinds of movements and disturbances that have recently been reported here.

421
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Perfect.

422
00:26:59,500 --> 00:27:02,500
So no trolls or ghosts will pass these bridges without us seeing them?

423
00:27:02,500 --> 00:27:04,500
Don't trolls go under bridges? They live under bridges?

424
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Touche. Touche, sir.

425
00:27:12,500 --> 00:27:14,500
Hey. Hey, what's going on?

426
00:27:14,500 --> 00:27:15,500
Cass, this looks great.

427
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While we go do a sweep, do you mind monitoring these?

428
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Yeah.

429
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Good luck out there.

430
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Jason grabs the thermal imager, which renders infrared radiation as visible light, and may be able to detect heat signatures attributed to the energy of a spirit.

431
00:27:30,500 --> 00:27:31,500
Alright, cool.

432
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While I go straight for a high-tech tool that Jason has brought with him to the island.

433
00:27:36,500 --> 00:27:40,500
I heard goggles. Now it's going to make you feel like you're in VR when you're wearing them.

434
00:27:40,500 --> 00:27:42,500
But you'll be able to get used to it.

435
00:27:42,500 --> 00:27:43,500
Okay. Yeah.

436
00:27:43,500 --> 00:27:44,500
Alright.

437
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Let's hit up the area where...

438
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The water?

439
00:27:46,500 --> 00:27:48,500
Yeah, to the water where the girl was drowned.

440
00:27:49,500 --> 00:27:53,500
The whole idea about using the IR is you're able to catch the things that people claim to see most.

441
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Things that emit their own light or shadow type entities.

442
00:27:58,500 --> 00:28:01,500
Two people died here.

443
00:28:01,500 --> 00:28:09,500
Is there a way to measure what would you look for for the emotional trauma and build up of something that was very scary and traumatic for those people?

444
00:28:09,500 --> 00:28:14,500
People losing their lives dramatically are what usually leads to residual type haunts.

445
00:28:14,500 --> 00:28:19,500
Now, the difference between types of haunts, you have an intelligent like you and I after we pass.

446
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We're trying to communicate.

447
00:28:20,500 --> 00:28:22,500
It's the tugging on the clothes letting people know we're there.

448
00:28:22,500 --> 00:28:24,500
A residual is like a tape player.

449
00:28:24,500 --> 00:28:30,500
It's always the same thing. It's the same type of activity at the same time, whether it's rewinding and playing itself over and over again.

450
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Yeah.

451
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Happens...

452
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Share that.

453
00:28:33,500 --> 00:28:34,500
What the heck?

454
00:28:40,500 --> 00:28:43,500
I thought I heard splashing, but I don't see anything to you.

455
00:28:46,500 --> 00:28:48,500
I'm not getting any heat signatures over here.

456
00:28:48,500 --> 00:28:50,500
I'm not seeing anything.

457
00:28:51,500 --> 00:28:58,500
Do you want to maybe head to that area where you had your experience and see maybe you're able to pick up anything with that?

458
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We head to where I felt a very strong energy presence before.

459
00:29:02,500 --> 00:29:03,500
Be careful.

460
00:29:03,500 --> 00:29:07,500
The shack where the doll belonging to the drowned little girl hangs.

461
00:29:07,500 --> 00:29:11,500
Like right now, I'm actually starting to feel freaked out.

462
00:29:11,500 --> 00:29:13,500
You're starting to feel freaked out?

463
00:29:13,500 --> 00:29:14,500
Well, but yeah.

464
00:29:14,500 --> 00:29:17,500
And that's the same thing that happened the other day.

465
00:29:18,500 --> 00:29:19,500
Got the goosebumps.

466
00:29:19,500 --> 00:29:21,500
Oh my God, I'm going to start crying.

467
00:29:27,500 --> 00:29:29,500
Did you just hear something?

468
00:29:31,500 --> 00:29:32,500
Oh, do you hear that?

469
00:29:32,500 --> 00:29:33,500
Yeah, I heard that.

470
00:29:35,500 --> 00:29:37,500
I heard it like right over here.

471
00:29:37,500 --> 00:29:38,500
Jesus.

472
00:29:38,500 --> 00:29:40,500
Oh, oh my God, no.

473
00:29:41,500 --> 00:29:42,500
Do you hear that?

474
00:29:42,500 --> 00:29:43,500
It's only a voice.

475
00:29:43,500 --> 00:29:44,500
Yeah, it's bright.

476
00:29:44,500 --> 00:29:47,500
We think we might have heard a disembodied voice.

477
00:29:47,500 --> 00:29:49,500
I can't tell it's too faint.

478
00:29:49,500 --> 00:29:52,500
But to communicate with it in Spanish, we'll need some help.

479
00:29:52,500 --> 00:29:53,500
Don't speak Spanish.

480
00:29:53,500 --> 00:29:56,500
I don't speak enough to actually have a conversation.

481
00:29:56,500 --> 00:29:57,500
Phil speaks Spanish.

482
00:29:57,500 --> 00:29:58,500
Give Phil?

483
00:29:58,500 --> 00:30:01,500
I think Phil would be the ideal person to have out here.

484
00:30:01,500 --> 00:30:02,500
Okay.

485
00:30:06,500 --> 00:30:07,500
All right.

486
00:30:07,500 --> 00:30:13,500
Jason and I head back out towards the shack to the spot where he and Jessica heard the disembodied voice.

487
00:30:13,500 --> 00:30:15,500
I heard the disembodied voice.

488
00:30:20,500 --> 00:30:21,500
All right, we're recording.

489
00:30:21,500 --> 00:30:22,500
So...

490
00:30:33,500 --> 00:30:37,500
Part of the big mystery from back then is that there was just this girl that drowned.

491
00:30:37,500 --> 00:30:39,500
It must have been really tragic for Don Julian.

492
00:30:39,500 --> 00:30:44,500
There was a caretaker here to just have this kind of placed upon him on this island.

493
00:30:44,500 --> 00:30:45,500
Yeah, absolutely.

494
00:30:45,500 --> 00:30:47,500
You think of it like a lantern in the woods.

495
00:30:47,500 --> 00:30:52,500
If there's something here that's going to try to be around where the energy is, and that's pretty much us.

496
00:30:52,500 --> 00:30:56,500
It could be her, it could be him, it could be some...

497
00:30:56,500 --> 00:30:57,500
What's that?

498
00:30:58,500 --> 00:30:59,500
What's that sound?

499
00:31:03,500 --> 00:31:04,500
There's a lot of noises out here.

500
00:31:04,500 --> 00:31:05,500
Yeah, there is.

501
00:31:05,500 --> 00:31:11,500
You don't know if it's something else that somebody came here and brought to the island due to rituals or contamination.

502
00:31:11,500 --> 00:31:12,500
Yeah.

503
00:31:13,500 --> 00:31:16,500
We're not here to bother, are we?

504
00:31:16,500 --> 00:31:22,500
We're here to listen, to help.

505
00:31:30,500 --> 00:31:32,500
Well, I think we've given it enough time.

506
00:31:32,500 --> 00:31:36,500
So let's go back to base camp and we'll check back later and see if we picked up anything on the record.

507
00:31:36,500 --> 00:31:37,500
Alright.

508
00:31:37,500 --> 00:31:38,500
Good job, man.

509
00:31:43,500 --> 00:31:49,500
Have you thought about maybe going back to that location where you had the experience and just trying to spend some time there?

510
00:31:49,500 --> 00:31:52,500
See if you're able to have a similar experience or...

511
00:31:52,500 --> 00:31:53,500
Uh...

512
00:31:53,500 --> 00:31:54,500
See if you get it again or...

513
00:31:54,500 --> 00:31:56,500
Yeah, yeah, I'm happy to do that.

514
00:31:56,500 --> 00:32:02,500
Jason and I definitely heard something over by the shack where Don Julian hung the Drowned Girls doll.

515
00:32:02,500 --> 00:32:07,500
It's the same spot where I felt under attack by a powerful spiritual entity.

516
00:32:08,500 --> 00:32:12,500
So I'm going to conduct what paranormal investigators call a solo session.

517
00:32:12,500 --> 00:32:20,500
This means I'll be sitting inside the shack alone for 30 minutes and we'll see if my presence triggers any paranormal activity.

518
00:32:22,500 --> 00:32:25,500
Okay, I'm gonna put a light here so we can see what's happening around you.

519
00:32:25,500 --> 00:32:26,500
Okay.

520
00:32:27,500 --> 00:32:31,500
Once Phil leaves, I'll be completely alone in the shack.

521
00:32:31,500 --> 00:32:33,500
No crew, no extra gear.

522
00:32:33,500 --> 00:32:37,500
It's just me and whatever spirits haunt this room.

523
00:32:39,500 --> 00:32:43,500
We are gonna set the timer for 30 minutes.

524
00:32:43,500 --> 00:32:44,500
Okay.

525
00:32:45,500 --> 00:32:47,500
30 minutes starts now.

526
00:32:55,500 --> 00:33:11,500
Okay, so all I'm hearing right now is like little skittering kind of around the area.

527
00:33:11,500 --> 00:33:13,500
Hello.

528
00:33:21,500 --> 00:33:23,500
Cut!

529
00:33:23,500 --> 00:33:25,500
What the heck?

530
00:33:29,500 --> 00:33:35,500
Phil's theory that naturally occurring gases will cause a lot of damage to the shack.

531
00:33:35,500 --> 00:33:46,500
Phil's theory that naturally occurring gases might play a role in the strange experiences on the island of the dolls does have historic precedent.

532
00:33:46,500 --> 00:33:55,500
More than 3,000 years ago, there was a place in Greece that was also believed to trigger supernatural phenomena, the Oracle of Delphi.

533
00:33:55,500 --> 00:34:02,500
That's where a priestess at a hilltop temple supposedly received messages from the god Apollo.

534
00:34:02,500 --> 00:34:07,500
The building sat atop a cavern that had a sacred spring running through it.

535
00:34:07,500 --> 00:34:14,500
The priestess would take a deep breath and enter a kind of mystical, trance-like state, and now we might know why.

536
00:34:14,500 --> 00:34:21,500
In 2001, researchers revealed that the cavern contains high amounts of methane and ethylene.

537
00:34:21,500 --> 00:34:29,500
Breathing this combination of natural gases, which bubbled up from fissures beneath the spring, may have triggered extreme hallucinations.

538
00:34:29,500 --> 00:34:37,500
And depending on the results of Phil's testing, a similar phenomenon might explain at least some of people's experiences at the island of the dolls.

539
00:34:37,500 --> 00:34:40,500
But it can't explain everything.

540
00:34:45,500 --> 00:34:53,500
After a disturbing encounter in the island shack earlier in the week, I volunteered to conduct a solo session in the same spot.

541
00:34:54,500 --> 00:34:58,500
Almost immediately, I continued to have strange experiences.

542
00:34:59,500 --> 00:35:01,500
Hello.

543
00:35:29,500 --> 00:35:31,500
Oh, my God, I'm lost.

544
00:35:36,500 --> 00:35:37,500
That is...

545
00:35:37,500 --> 00:35:39,500
Oh, I did it again! Okay!

546
00:35:40,500 --> 00:35:45,500
And this is now the second disturbance in this room when I've been in here.

547
00:35:48,500 --> 00:35:49,500
Hey.

548
00:35:49,500 --> 00:35:50,500
Hey.

549
00:35:51,500 --> 00:35:56,500
Just in case there's like a faulty wire, that battery, I think we should take this out of the equation.

550
00:35:56,500 --> 00:35:58,500
We could get a different light in here and then see what happens.

551
00:35:58,500 --> 00:35:59,500
Okay.

552
00:35:59,500 --> 00:36:01,500
I'll get this out of here then.

553
00:36:02,500 --> 00:36:03,500
I'm gonna leave you with this.

554
00:36:03,500 --> 00:36:05,500
Okay, thank you.

555
00:36:22,500 --> 00:36:23,500
What's she hearing?

556
00:36:24,500 --> 00:36:31,500
I'm hearing some kind of taps against the back wall behind me. Do you guys see anything on the monitors?

557
00:36:33,500 --> 00:36:34,500
Some shadows or something.

558
00:36:34,500 --> 00:36:37,500
Yeah, I can't tell if it's your shadow though.

559
00:36:37,500 --> 00:36:38,500
Go.

560
00:36:51,500 --> 00:36:53,500
Just behind you, there's a doll.

561
00:36:55,500 --> 00:36:56,500
What?

562
00:37:01,500 --> 00:37:03,500
Holy s***.

563
00:37:04,500 --> 00:37:08,500
Yeah, it's totally moving. I see it now.

564
00:37:10,500 --> 00:37:13,500
Yeah, what's really weird is none of the other ones are moving. It's just that one.

565
00:37:14,500 --> 00:37:16,500
And there's not a breeze in here or anything.

566
00:37:20,500 --> 00:37:21,500
Hola.

567
00:37:24,500 --> 00:37:26,500
Hola, como estas?

568
00:37:34,500 --> 00:37:39,500
Oh my god, Phil.

569
00:37:39,500 --> 00:37:43,500
Something just started talking from one of the dolls in here.

570
00:37:43,500 --> 00:37:51,500
Came over to a little shrine area that's built here and heard a voice say mama.

571
00:37:51,500 --> 00:37:53,500
Okay, that is so weird.

572
00:37:54,500 --> 00:37:55,500
Alright, I'm coming out.

573
00:38:00,500 --> 00:38:01,500
That's crazy.

574
00:38:01,500 --> 00:38:03,500
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

575
00:38:03,500 --> 00:38:05,500
You did not hear mama.

576
00:38:05,500 --> 00:38:09,500
I most certainly did. One of the dolls absolutely started talking.

577
00:38:10,500 --> 00:38:14,500
We head back into the shack with Jess, but we don't hear anything else.

578
00:38:14,500 --> 00:38:18,500
We also can't find any reason why the doll above her was swaying.

579
00:38:20,500 --> 00:38:27,500
The amount of activity that only you have had, and we've been able to document, I think, is intriguing enough.

580
00:38:27,500 --> 00:38:28,500
It's really interesting.

581
00:38:28,500 --> 00:38:32,500
Well, we got a long boat ride back, so I think we should pack up our gear and get out of here.

582
00:38:32,500 --> 00:38:33,500
I'm down for that.

583
00:38:33,500 --> 00:38:34,500
Let's do it.

584
00:38:39,500 --> 00:38:43,500
Although we're leaving, our investigation of the island of the dolls is far from over.

585
00:38:43,500 --> 00:38:50,500
After spending several hours analyzing the recordings, we were able to isolate some really strange sounds.

586
00:38:50,500 --> 00:38:54,500
Jason and I thought we heard a voice calling out to us that he and Phil recorded.

587
00:38:54,500 --> 00:38:55,500
Could be him, could be some...

588
00:38:55,500 --> 00:38:57,500
Yeah, right there.

589
00:38:57,500 --> 00:39:02,500
We listened back to the audio, and after amplifying the recording, we heard a voice calling out to us.

590
00:39:02,500 --> 00:39:05,500
We heard a voice calling out to us that he and Phil recorded.

591
00:39:05,500 --> 00:39:07,500
Could be him, could be some...

592
00:39:07,500 --> 00:39:08,500
Yeah, right there.

593
00:39:08,500 --> 00:39:13,500
We listened back to the audio, and after amplifying the recording, we heard this.

594
00:39:18,500 --> 00:39:19,500
I hear something.

595
00:39:19,500 --> 00:39:20,500
Let me rewind it a little bit.

596
00:39:24,500 --> 00:39:29,500
I mean, to me that almost sounds like a yudame, which means help me in Spanish.

597
00:39:30,500 --> 00:39:33,500
Then came Jessica's 30-minute solo session.

598
00:39:33,500 --> 00:39:37,500
Jason and I both saw a shadow figure against the back wall.

599
00:39:37,500 --> 00:39:38,500
There.

600
00:39:38,500 --> 00:39:39,500
Oh, yep, I see it.

601
00:39:39,500 --> 00:39:46,500
But after looking at it closely, we can't rule out that it could have been a shadow cast by an animal or something outside the shack.

602
00:39:46,500 --> 00:39:49,500
I will give you the light thing.

603
00:39:49,500 --> 00:39:51,500
That is...

604
00:39:51,500 --> 00:39:52,500
Come on, did it again!

605
00:39:52,500 --> 00:39:53,500
Okay!

606
00:39:53,500 --> 00:39:58,500
And finally, there was the moment when the doll above me was in the back wall.

607
00:39:58,500 --> 00:40:05,500
And then there was the moment when the doll above me moved, and I distinctly heard what sounded like one of the dolls saying mama.

608
00:40:07,500 --> 00:40:10,500
I really do think something really weird is going on over there.

609
00:40:10,500 --> 00:40:11,500
Like, 100%.

610
00:40:17,500 --> 00:40:21,500
We can all agree that the island of the dolls is a deeply disturbing place.

611
00:40:21,500 --> 00:40:28,500
It is a fact that a young girl and the island's original caretaker both drowned here for reasons unknown.

612
00:40:28,500 --> 00:40:37,500
But as to whether the young girl's ghost or the victims of nearby Aztec rituals haunt the island is a matter of spirited debate.

613
00:40:37,500 --> 00:40:38,500
Come on, did it again!

614
00:40:38,500 --> 00:40:39,500
Okay!

615
00:40:41,500 --> 00:40:48,500
Phil's tests reveal that although there are elevated gas levels around the island, they're not high enough to cause hallucinations.

616
00:40:49,500 --> 00:40:57,500
It is also worth noting that Mexico City is a place of deeply held religious beliefs that may shape people's experiences.

617
00:40:57,500 --> 00:41:06,500
Catholicism, brought by the Spanish conquistadors, mixed with ancient rituals that are still conducted to honor Aztec heritage.

618
00:41:06,500 --> 00:41:10,500
But Jess's encounters in the shack, both by day...

619
00:41:10,500 --> 00:41:12,500
Oh my god, I'm going to start crying.

620
00:41:13,500 --> 00:41:19,500
And at night are hard to explain away, as are the noises captured on the island.

621
00:41:19,500 --> 00:41:24,500
Voices that seem to cry out from the beyond.